Modular cats wall shelving units - Build as big or as small as you wish

At Last! Our awesome new cats wall modular cat shelving is here. Being finalized and actual production units are being created this week for a photoshoot we will show you here on our catwalkforkitty.com web site.

We knew there was a modular cat wall elsewhere in the world (china I think) but that does not help us in the USA and our cats. So we took matters into our own hands and got designing a method of installation and safety that would look at all angles while we created something we would be honored to put in our online shop.

I knew we had to create a design that would allow the cat perches to be installed and easily adjustable whilst keeping our cats very safe and secure. We wanted something that would allow for the perches to be knocked, yet not come off of the wall mounting assembly. After some trial and effort, I found the right mechanism that would be perfect for my design of modular cat perches and shelving.

The video and photo shows the very limited version of our prototype wall installation, but shows nicely how they can be pushed to any position yet stay firmly in place when the cats travel from one cat perch to the next perch.

These images show our unfinished and prototype unit, the end piece will be a beautiful design and quality you will be proud to hang in your home or shelter.

The shelving can be released from the wall to be repositioned on a higher or lower rung of the mounting rail with a simple button release mechanism. It is impossible to simply grab the shelf and lift off for removal. We are also working with an attachment for a handle strap so that when the cat is inside the box, you can lock the doors, attach the strap and carry for kitty to the vets office without having to run all over the house to capture a scared cat.

Expect the new line of modular cat wall to be released on our website http://catwalkforkitty.com by the end of this week or next weekend at the latest.

As always, please contact us if you have questions. Thank you for reading.

Introducing the New Floating Cat Shelf / Floating Cat perch

Finally, after many requests we have the brand new floating cat shelf that we have been working on for quite some time.

Available in some really beautiful finishes, from Cherry stains to Mahogany to Espresso and carpeted or non carpeted with the carpet of your choice.

The hardware is hidden within the shelving unit itself out of steel rods that screw into the wall studs behind the sheetrock wall or into concrete or masonry or brick.

The shelving is heavy duty. The smallest 20" x 10" shelf can hold 65lbs in weight easily with the larger shelving units can hold much more. (videos to come)

The shelving is beautiful looking and can suit your decor, simply tell us what you need.

No sooner had I mounted the floating shelving onto the wall and the cats were fighting to climb on top to check out the new toy.

The hardware is custom made by us and not sold anywhere in the U.S. currently. The back of the floating shelves have 3 or 4 locations to choose from when mounting. So you can fine tune how much left or right you wish to mount the shelving units on the wall. The smallest shelves we can make of this size are 20", but the largest size in unlimited, just tell us what you need.

To mount a floating shelf, simply drill a hole with the 3/8" drill bit to help guide the mounting bolts into the wood stud in the wall or brick or concrete etc. You will use the template provided with your order to drill correctly. then simply twist the bold using an adjustable wrench until the screw thread has disappeared into the wall completely.

When both of your bolts have been screwed easily into the wall, simply slide the shelving unit onto the bolts firmly secured into your wall and you are done! There is nothing more you need to do, it's that simple, the friction of the shelf sitting on the bolts will hold the shelving securely in place.

It looks so awesome and will certainly have people wondering how the heck you have these beautiful shelving units fixed to your wall.

We are starting back up our podcast - KittyCatNation - We are looking for guests!

So those of you that know us, know that Dee and I have a podcast we began last year called KittyCatNation for cat lovers. This in turn was linked to a website called KittyCatNation.com we created which was a free membership website where cat owners could interact and have fun with each other, getting to exchange photos stories and info etc about their beloved cats and cat products they recommend etc. Well it is time to kick it all back into action again. One of the last things we hinted at on the show was looking at a new product we could offer cat lovers and maybe make a living ourselves while we we're at it. Well, we are not quite there but oh my goodness, what a ride it has been.

We both started new jobs over a year ago, Dee absolutely loves her job working an hour away with a wonderful company that really looks after the workforce. And I, well, I started working for a huge company that drained the living daylights out of me with corrupt supervisors and scandalous managers with their heads so far up their own egos, that luckily fate stepped in and found me another path to take.

The next thing you know here we are and still trying to make it all work just right. I wish success was the reward for hard work, it seems I still need to keep pushing ever harder to get there.

All said and done, our cat shelf business is growing slowly behind the scenes in ways that even surprise us from time to time. When one door closes a few more open as of late.

We want to restart the podcast once more, to find people that would be a great interview, to help give useful advice for cat owners and help them choose the right cat furniture for the right situation, to be a resource that can help as many cat owners out there as possible. So if you would like to be on the show and feel you have something helpful to announce to the cat loving world or just want to talk about how your cats came to be ion your life, let us know how we can reach you and maybe we will do a live show with you on the phone.

We ALSO have a cat lover magazine being worked on behind the scenes and we get a handful of people still asking us when the heck is that thing ever going to be released. So here too, if you feel you have something to contribute, let us know and we would be happy to hear from you.

We are still juggling with fire blazing balls it feels at times. This past week for me has been a long line of weekly mishaps, a few orders had to be sidelined for a few days as a local charity tricky tray and I think another cat shelter in Texas need our products to help raise money for the animal shelters and I was sick over the weekend, enough to slow me down horribly. The orders of cat shelf creation are a process I could teach, but my attention to craftsmanship is such, I trust no one yet with putting out a great product. When the orders for the large shelving units are up to about 30 per week I will have to get someone to help me. It will be then in fact that I will be able to rest a little more and take better care of my health.

What types of wall are good for mounting a cat shelf system?

Of all the kinds of walls we are asked about for mounting cat shelving, cat perches, floating shelves and the other types of wall mounted units for cats that we sell, I have yet to come across a type of wall that we cannot assist with. So far the most common kinds of wall are sheetrock, concrete, stone, brick, plaster walls and we have even assisted wit ha corrugated metal wall for mounting our cat furniture onto.

It makes a big difference though whether we send you hardware for a sheetrock wall compared to plaster or brick wall. Each has its own specific mounting hardware. But worse case scenario, if you tell us the wrong wall type, a quick trip to your local home depot or lowes will have you headed in the right direction with the correct type of mounting screws, bolts or anchors.

Typically the screws we send will hold 250lbs per screw, but our units are not tested for those kinds of loads. We usually test our units to hold anywhere from 80lbs to 150lbs depending upon the model you purchase. We want none of your cats to be in danger from using our cat furniture, so it is important we are over cautious with our products.

We have 5 new products we are launching this week if we can find the time to get on top of them due to work load. We have a brand new floating shelf and floating basic catwalk design we are so very close to releasing. You will not be able to see any type of bracket holding this style of shelf up, so we are excited to see the type of response we get from this product.

We have a brand new window perch design, far better than 99% of anything we see out there on the market. But ours is handcrafted and of excellent quality, we are just wrapping up the last minor fixes on this item which should be out later this week.
We are turning out bigcat (4 foot long cat shelf) and our tomcat (our 3 foot long cat shelf) into floor models, so you can place them close to a window sill and have your cats jump up and down as they wish.

Also in the works is a Yin-Yang Cat shelf that will wipe out the buddha cat shelf when it is completed, this will really be a design statement from catwalkforkitty.com when it is ready for showing which may be a few more weeks yet. We have been asked for litter box covers etc. which we will get to, but unless we are asked by the masses to jump on it, we are following the flow of inquires for now.

Be well cat lovers!

How to get your cats to play or to go onto a cat shelf

Are you new to the cat shelf or cat perch world? Have you thought about what type of cat furniture you should buy for your precious kitty, but you are sure they will not even play on such a thing?

We had the very same thoughts and considerations when we designed and built our very first cat wall, and over time with 3 very different types of cats we came to some different conclusions and concepts on how to get the most out of whatever you purchase to entertain your cats.

First off, all three of our cats are so different. One cat is a daredevil, capable of almost inhuman feats of agility and strength, which is easy when you think that Bugsy is not a human at all, but a loving cat. Felicity is an overweight and funny character, she is a bully around food and the only time you see her run like the wind is to:

1. get more food that is being poured out that day or

2. to receive more love and rubbies that you are obviously giving out to the other cats as she can tell by the tone of your voice.

But mostly, if she can do something without having to move, she will (which sounds like me as of late, which my current type 2 diabetes indicates) Rachel, is our youngest and smallest cat who I would say is about 10lb if that. So we have Felicity at 24lbs, Bugsy who is 16lbs and Rachel at about 10lbs. Rachel can be the most thoughtless and dare I say dumbest of the 3 most times as she seems to be most animalistic, but in saying that, she LOVES to have cuddle time with her mum, though if mum is not around, I will do just as well some times.

About our home we have rules, the cats are not allowed on the kitchen counter tops or dining room tables etc., though window sills are fine and we love for them to play, explore and play fetch with just about anything rolled up into a small ball. So when we installed the first set of cat shelving, we had to let them know it more than o.k. to play and climb all over the cat wall shelf units.

We initially did one of the three or all three following things to get our cats accustomed to climbing the wall.

1. we placed their food and water bowls on the shelving and left them for a while, This worked in almost every case, although Rachel was a little intimidated to try climbing the cat shelves at first.

2. Using the cat's favorite treats to tease the cats up also worked.

We also gave each cat lots of their favorite loving when they climbed up. For each of our cats this is very different. Bugsy likes scratches behind the ear, and he will show you just where to scratch by moving his head. You move your fingers, staying in one position, he will move his head where he best requires it. Felicity is a rough hard lover, so some heavy rough scratching, but not for long as she gets a bit too boisterous if you stay too long rubbing her back. and Rachel, likes gentle longer strokes and scratches behind the ears till she looks at you to say "ok, I have had enough."

3. If your cat will allow you to pick her up (2 of our cats will allow this, but not Felicity, no, no, no...) simply place them on top and be calm as you do this, show that all is just fine and that it is allowed. Shower with affection and place a favorite blanket or toy and play with them for a while, before you know it your cats will mostly follow by example from each other, so make it a fun place to be.

Catwalk for kitty is making a complete range of cat furniture for all of your needs, these are stylish and classy, craftsman made designs, made in the USA. We have another 5 products launching in the following week after the next batch of orders that have to be released. If you do not see what you need, simply contact us as we are able to create almost anything you require.

Thanks for reading and if you have any questions or comments, contact us.

What beautiful weather for making cat shelves.

Creating cat shelving has never been so nice as I sit here resting a little while to regain some energy for the rest of my day making our line if cat shelving to pass on to local pet shops and customers alike, I'm blown away just how lovely and warm it is out today. I can't help but be renewed by this gleaming energy from the sun that makes it such a pleasure having the bay door open today. Come on summer! And may there be many more days such as this I'm the near future.


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A New Fun Cat Shelf /Perch Model called Baby TomCat

The Baby TomCat was born from the needs of a patient customer of ours Judith S. of L.A. Calinfornia. She had told us the TomCat cat shelf was a little on the big size and she required some about 12" smaller. So we took a look at our TomCat and asked ourselves how could we make this unit smaller and maybe a little more cute.

The regular cat shelf / perch was 36" long and the cut out was large for all cats. So after some playing about, we found a size which we feel is very functional and darn cute too! What is so cool about this unit, is that with rubber feet it is not only a wall mounting unit for cat to play on, it is also the perfect little free standing floor unit cat perch, cat shelf and cat house in one.

 

Measuring 24" long and 12" tall and 12" deep, I can't wait to make more of these for our cats to play on and get your some awesome new footage for youtube.

Thank you Judith!

We entered "Get on the Shelf" contest with Walmart, Help us win!

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Question about a cat that jumps up on counter top while cook

Help controlling a cat in the kitchen

Question:

Does anyone have any cat training tips? My big boy Franky has just recently started jumping on the stove while I'm trying to cook. We have no doors in the kitchen to shut him out with, and obviously, I'm terrified he's going to burn himself, or me, as I just barely avoided a skillet full of hamburger and grease he sent flying tonight. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you!

1 possible Answer:

We firmly say no, click our fingers at the same time, so they associate the click with something they should not do. A water pistol may be good to have at the ready. 2 or 3 times and they will not do it again. If you use a water pistol or squirt bottle, be sure to do it as an immediate response to their action. Do not squirt them 10, 20 seconds later as it has to be clear that they did this, and they get wet as a result. the faster the action and your response is, the better they will associate.Please also make sure everyone is on the same page with this. If you are being good with the training, but other in your family are not, then your efforts could be quickly undone.

Good luck!

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Email your other cat related questions here: topcat@catwalkforkitty.com

Cat Perch Creation Moving forward

The cat perch and cat shelf business

is one that has been giving us one heck of a ride this past month. Since we launched the new store at the beginning of March, our ranking with google has slipped as all of the shop items are now on another domain. Everything looks the same more or less on our current site, but the shop pages are actually pointing to a shop hosting service for now. It might be the way to go long term as the shop is just so darn cool, although it has some troublesome limits.

We are trying to get our cat shelf products into amazon and already have them linked to google products to help with search results. We have a steady flow of videos being uploaded to youtube and we have even tried some email blasts to let people know about our cool products. It's easy to pay a dollar for a click for someone to come visit our site, but it's not worth the money right now, so for now we have to settle for good ole hard work.

Because the business is still so young, to balance the creation of the cat perches with the updating of the website, with the sitting down and talking about marketing with Dee, to having the ability to have any kind of personal life is something of a nightmare at this stage. But I believe in Catwalk for kitty and know I have to keep on keeping on.

Pricing of the cat perches is our next big hurdle. We have found that although we can make the cat perches and cat shelves at a lower price, we are unable to sustain the initial growth of the business if we continue to keep the pricing as it currently stands. After looking around at quality products and especially the handcrafted market, we feel we have a perfect price point, then coupled with free shipping, we should make most happy with the new changes coming into affect April 7th.

After some months creating cat perches and cat shelving and seeing exactly all that is involved with the "extra costs" we have a new price which will be higher than our current prices that reflect more sensibly our time, effort, materials and other overheads. We plan to reward heavily next year our best customers as they certainly seem to keep coming back for more.

New products

We are literally chomping at the bit to get a start on some of our news designs we have drawn up. Some of our new cat house designs are plays on very popular designs not yet available in the USA, though our cat perches and shelving, trees and cat furniture in general will be 100% made in the USA with FREE shipping.

We have a modular cat box wall unit available soon in many configurations. We are currently working on a quote for this style for a cat shelter in C.A. I am actually buying the wood tomorrow to create our first full system which the photos will be here shortly.

We have a whole line of "Floating Wall Shelves" in creation, whereby the usually cat stepping shelf units we make and sell will also be made in the floating shelf style.

And a cool new product I can't wait to make is the "Cat Exercise Wheel" where your cat can safely jump up into the wheel and be able to run after a toy or light etc. to help them get their exercise each day. As a designer and inventor I have version of this that will be available this year which will be an exercise wheel for my heaviest cat Felicity who is 24lbs. When she sits she looks like a hovercraft as her skin and fur overlaps her body all around her permitter. I am thinking that we will have a version that will have her run for a timed period each time she wants to eat her food. Nothing like torture, but something just to help her spend some more calories each day. (maybe I should make one for myself as I too have been seeing my own shape becoming more and more unfit!) :)

ALSO, if you own a website and would love to exchange links with a small line of text or so, please contact me so we ca help each other.

Customer Shelving Units Prior to Shipping

Here are some of the latest works of art to leave our workshop, we hope you like. We would love to hear some feedback should you have any. Thank you so much.

A Big thank you to John Carroll for being a great customer, here is his shelving units we created just for his cats.



Another Cat Perch 48" wide with Cat windows and Light cream carpet for a customer.



A beautiful Bird window cat perch 48" long, 12" tall and 12" deep.




3 cat perches together on steps.

Congratulations to Christopher and Lea Our next 2 winners!

This month's drawing was a little different as we had a Facebook photo contest.
Lea had 305 votes and Christopher had 260 votes! Great job everyone.

We will take this months online website entries and put them into this coming months pot for a drawing at the end of the month.

As always, good luck all!

Our NEW Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/CatWalkForKittycom/401464666536803

So please go visit and like us meanwhile. :)

The winners of our first monthly drawing

Congratulations to
Regine Fung & Derrick Clark
The winners of our first monthly drawing.
We will be in touch tonight.
*Though our NEW SHOP is open for business, please come back often as we continue to update.

"MEET THE BREEDS" A HUGE thank you! To All of you that stopped by the CatwalkforKitty booth at the "Meet the Breeds show" in NYC this past weekend to purchase, say hello and congratulate us on our brand new line of Catwalks. The response was overwhelming to say the very least. This has been a dream of ours for a long time now and to see this materialize from our minds to paper to the actual event was amazing.

We honestly met some of the most loving, caring people we could ever hope to meet and are overjoyed to know that such animal loving people are out there doing their part.
Diversity was key this past weekend from backing singers of Bruce Springsteen to a lovely couple from East Africa, to Super Middleweight Champion Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin all entering our 'Win a free Catwalk' competition.

It was our honor and pleasure in shaking all of your hands and helping you in any way we could. Also a very special thank you to Brittney from PETCO who gave us support and advice, giving us guidance we needed in our next steps forward to being able to reach a much larger audience with our products.


To all of you that cheered for our new line of products, Thank you!

Many things were learned from this event. We will be introducing 3 new products that were strongly asked for by quite a few people. We love the guidance we gained and will some how name the new products after those that suggested them to us. We will keep the lid on the whole plan till a few weeks have passed and we have finalized design, creation processes and pricing.